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Request- VN-1~3 _~<, Applicant: Kenneth J. Johnson 4 Location: 701 Emerald Drive Discussion° The applicant is requesting a variance from Section 10-010 (c) to allow expansion of his single garage to a double garage. The expansion would move the garage wall 10' closer to 7th St, Nr4 and leave it with a 6.9' setback rather than the 15' required by Code. ' ~wser~ The rear yard of the property is much lower than the house and street levels._ There are steep banks immediately behind the house and adjacent to 7th St. NW. Construction of a detached garage would not be a preferable alternative as it would have to access onto highly travelled 7th Street, would require a variance also, and would be expensive because it would have to have its floor level at street grade but would be constructed at a point where ground level is about 12' below street grade according to the applicant. The present house and garage presently project closer to 7th Street than other houses to the west on that street but it is not especially noticeable because they are separated by a street and some trees. To the east of the Johnson house is a row of large trees also coming out close to 7th St, and beyond those are County Ditch No. ?_ andl~Polynesian Village complex. The trees at the Johnson's rear lot line have already established a visual barrier to the east so that extending the garage closer to the street should create no problem in that direction. The only potential problem relates to blocking the vie~~a of the intersection for traffic heading west on 7th St. Ntia and for traffic coming out of Emerald Drive where the driver is looking to the east. It does not seem that extending the garage will create any problem in this respect and there are already a fence and a tree blocking view in this area. There have been no reported accidents at this intersection since the first of this year and the Police Department was not a„--are of any particular problem at this location in prior years. ' ~r 9~~1i}'l$R' 4.>w~ ^'F'.,'7. F-~ 4'~1:,~.+M':s t+~.aw+~ ..- a a.w:~=..,. ,. ~- . ... - . ... -.